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This volume presents a sample of key Educational Testing Service (ETS) research and development efforts related to speaking assessment over the years.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Contributors
Series Editors' Foreword
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Assessing second language speaking at ETS: Introduction (John M. Norris & Larry Davis)
Part 1: ETS speaking tests from the 1970s through the 1990s
Chapter 2: Historical perspectives on the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview: ETS contributions (Judith Liskin-Gasparro)
Chapter 3: The TOEFL Test of Spoken English and the Genesis of an ETS Approach to Speaking Assessment (Larry Davis)
Part 2: Design and operation of large-scale speaking tests
Chapter 4: Validity considerations for testing speaking in the workplace: The TOEIC Speaking test (Jonathan Schmidgall)
Chapter 5: Speaking test tasks for young language learners: Development and validation (Edward P. Getman)
Chapter 6: Large-scale human scoring of speaking (Cathy Wendler, Nancy Glazer, & Jeffrey Bard)
Chapter 7: Use of formulaic language in TOEFL iBT speaking responses: Implications for scoring (Xiaoming Xi, Pam Mollaun, & Larry Davis)
Part 3: Innovations in speaking constructs, tasks, and technologies
Chapter 8: Pragmatically speaking: Contexts, forms, and functions in L2 speaking assessment (Veronika Timpe-Laughlin)
Chapter 9: The use of video in integrated speaking tasks: Test-taker perceptions and task performance (Ching-Ni Hsieh, Larry Davis, Yuan Wang, Pam Mollaun, & Jonathan Schmidgall)
Chapter 10: Aligning machine-generated feedback on speaking performance with human judgments: Some initial explorations (Lin Gu, Pam Mollaun, Jeremy Lee, Yuan Wang, Fred Tstutagawa, Saerhim Oh, Jorge Luis Beltrán Zúñiga)
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Larry Davis is Research Director at ETS, USA.
John M. Norris is Principal Research Scientist at Educational Testing Service Japan.
Zusammenfassung
This volume presents a sample of key Educational Testing Service (ETS) research and development efforts related to speaking assessment over the years.
